Elizaveta Ostapenko

Once upon somewhere in between

In a space gap between stasis and motion, between reality and fiction, between tension and ease, many curious finds lie to be discovered. It is an invitation to slow down and explore these suspended spaces, unfold hidden layers, and reveal new possible journey fragments.

Elizaveta Ostapenko engages with the theme of transformation in her prints, paintings and installations. Her works arise from observations of the everyday environment, exploring processes of transformation and states of movement and static. Ostapenko deconstructs and reconstructs found fragments into new, complex architectural spaces, working primarily with colour and reduced surfaces.
As the winner of the Hans Purrmann Advancement Award 2025, she is showing a cycle of etchings entitled Once upon somewhere in between (first exhibited at the HFBK Hamburg Annual Exhibition 2024) and a panoramic painting of five dibond panels entitled Some say we have no time to stand and stare (Panel 6) (2024).
The cycle, consisting of three medium-sized prints, refers in its title to the fairy-tale, dreamlike allusion 'once upon' and 'somewhere' to an imaginary space; 'in between' reinforces the statement of an intermediate world, a memory or a state of transition. The etchings are printed in two colours, ochre and light grey, creating an atmospheric distance. Ostapenko draws into the prints with a pencil, transforming the editioned print into an individual graphic.
This contrasts with the panoramic painting Some say we have no time to stand and stare (Panel 6). The title is perhaps a reflection on the speed of modern life and, at the same time, an invitation to slowness and careful observation. Here, on a 100 × 590 cm surface, the artist paints hard-edged, bold, camouflage-like patches of colour, rhythmically repeating a landscape or related motif from narrow on the left to wide and mirrored in the centre. This repetition of motifs follows the principle of a photographic shot with progressively longer times of exposure.

Prof. Frank-Joachim Grossmann, Jury member of the International Print Biennial Yerevan 2023

Print 1, 2024, Etching on paper, Unique Print, 55,5 x 74 cm

Print 2, 2024, Etching on paper, color pencils, Unique Print, 55,5 x 44 cm

Print 3, 2024, Etching on paper, color pencils, Unique Print, 55,5 x 48 cm

Hans Purrmann Prizes, Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer (Germany), 2025, Photo: Klaus Venus

Fifth International Print Biennale, Yerevan (Armenia), 2025, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Everyday

Collected during the artist’s daily walks, these images capture everyday street scenes: debris, temporary barriers, objects in decay. These found still lifes, isolated from their original context and presented as staged, almost theatrical compositions, invite the viewer to look closer at what usually goes unnoticed.

Everyday 1, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 2, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 3, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 4, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 5, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 6, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 7, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 8, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 9, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 10, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 11, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 15, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 17, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Everyday 19, 2018, Acrylic on photograph, Framed in 18 x 18 cm

Unaufgefallenes, SameSame Galerie, Hamburg (Germany), 2025, Photo: Julien Kartheuser

Déjà vu avant-première

Déjà vu avant-première is a notion between seeing something which doesn’t exist yet and something very familiar, that one already knows. This is a space between reality and fiction, between past and future, between memory and prediction. The artist revisits and reuses an archive of her daily observations through a process of de/reconstructing found past impressions into new narratives and environments. The series of small-scale paintings was first shown at Ostapenko's solo exhibition Déjà vu avant-première in Romania, revealing fragments of existing and non-existing memories.

Page 1, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 2, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 14 x 21 x 0,3 cm

Page 3, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 4, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 14 x 21 x 0,3 cm

Page 5, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 6, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 14 x 21 x 0,3 cm

Page 7, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 8, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 9, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 10, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 11, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 12, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 21 x 14 x 0,3 cm

Page 13, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 14 x 21 x 0,3 cm

Page 14, 2020, Acrylic on paper, mounted on a dibond panel, 14 x 21 x 0,3 cm

Déjà vu avant-première, DalgArt, Dâlga (Romania), 2024, Photo: Cristi Floriganta

Towers

This series is an ongoing project based on photographs of towers, collected during the artist’s travels around Europe. Some images were translated into paintings, while others were transformed into large-scale composite inkjet prints.

Berlin Weissensee, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 41 x 23 cm

Berlin Potsdamer Platz, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 41 x 23 cm

Berlin, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 41 x 23 cm

Mainz, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 41 x 23 cm

Moscow, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 41 x 23 cm

Potsdamer Platz, 2025, Composite inkjet prints on paper, 250 x 140 cm

Unaufgefallenes, SameSame Galerie, Hamburg (Germany), 2025, Photo: Julien Kartheuser

Déjà vu avant-première, DalgArt, Dâlga (Romania), 2024, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Unaufgefallenes, SameSame Galerie, Hamburg (Germany), 2025, Photo: Julien Kartheuser

My favourite journey between melting and freezing

How can the process of transformation and movement be frozen and extended over time? The work deals with the deconstruction and reconstruction of everyday urban surroundings. The moment of transformation from one form to the next, the play with scale and perspective leads to a destabilisation of habitual ways of looking at the surroundings. The installation consists of five objects connected by a toy railway line. The work was awarded the DAAD Prize 2022.

In a time full of tensions and smouldering conflicts, Elizaveta Ostapenko succeeds in developing creative modes that confront this crisis-ridden time without illustrating it. On the contrary, she shows ways to confront challenges creatively. The concept of the fragmentary is inscribed in the DNA of modernism, namely since the beginning of the 20th century, when collage and montage in literature and the visual arts (in particular the effects and after-effects of Cubism) responded to the fragmentation of a holistic world view that had become impossible. Ostapenko invents new forms of dealing with fragments she collects as traces or creates herself, and in various ways reassembles or brings back to perception. In her sculptural work, she stages these fragments in such a way that the viewer becomes aware: there is not just a single possible view, but each part wants/must be seen from multiple perspectives. The assemblage is created by a dissolved melting or an arrested freezing. One should also be as flexible and creative in thoughts, in order not to surrender to the broken pieces of a fragmented reality, but to create a positive synthesis: a vivid metaphor for processes for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, for the creation of a space of possibilities. Also in her graphic and painterly work, the artist employs such complex remodelling, new syntheses of fragments, which she describes as pasteurisation: a further, highly conceptual perspective on solutions to bring broken pieces, and fragments together into a new formation. With her work, Ostapenko awakens positive energies, as she can create a convincingly shaped aesthetic image from even the smallest detail or fragment. Its seemingly playful beauty, even lightness, is only a seduction to engage with her complex/conceptual way of creatively encountering the world and the present.

Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Bonnet, Art historian and professor of art history at the University of Bonn, Germany

Object 1, 2022, Papier-mâché, acrylic paint, 69 x 119 x 55 cm

Object 2, 2022, Papier-mâché, acrylic paint, 35 x 74 x 20 cm

Object 3, 2022, Plaster, acrylic paint, 33 x 73 x 51 cm

Object 4, 2022, Ceramic, glaze, 15 x 23 x 25 cm

Object 5, 2022, Papier-mâché, acrylic paint, 25 x 114 x 27 cm

Papier-mâché, plaster, ceramic, acrylic paint, wood, plastic, ca. 250 x 100 x 60 cm, 2022

KDK Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Germany), 2022, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Pasteurisation

Pasteurisation refers to the short-term heating of liquid or pasty foods to eliminate the vegetative forms of microorganisms. It is used to help preserve nutrients for a longer period. The series Pasteurisation is based on scraps of posters and advertisements collected during the artist’s travels around the world. These incidental abstractions, naturally occurring and often unnoticed, were discovered while walking through cities. Captured before they could be destroyed or disappear, they have been preserved in the form of paintings and prints.

Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Bonnet, Art historian and professor of art history at the University of Bonn, Germany

Information, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 80 x 60 cm

Unfinished story, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 80 x 60 cm

Untitled 1, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 80 x 60 cm

Hurensohn, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 55 x 39 cm

Monster, 2020, Acrylic on paper, 55 x 39 cm

Untitled 2, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 55 x 39 cm

Nuit, 2020, Acrylic on paper, 39 x 48 cm

Tic tac toe, 2021, Acrylic on paper, 143 x 54 cm

Untitled 4, 2021, Etching on paper, Edition of 7, 53,5 x 40 cm

Untitled 3, 2021, Etching on paper, Edition of 7, 70 x 50 cm

Untitled 5, 2021, Etching on paper, Edition of 7, 79 x 48 cm

Stadt. Land. Fluss, Wälderhaus, Hamburg (Germany), 2025, Photo: Julien Kartheuser

Some say we have no time to stand and stare

Elizaveta Ostapenko’s work develops from the observation of everyday surroundings, exploring the process of transformation and states of movement and static. She de- and reconstructs found architectural fragments into new compound spaces, working primarily with colour and flat reduced surfaces. The series of paintings Some say we have no time to stand and stare follows this transformation process from one static form to another, suggesting new emerging forms of suspended in-between spaces. This is an invitation to pause and explore this frozen process from multiple angles and perspectives.

Elizaveta Ostapenko engages with the theme of transformation in her prints, paintings and installations. Her works arise from observations of the everyday environment, exploring processes of transformation and states of movement and static. Ostapenko deconstructs and reconstructs found fragments into new, complex architectural spaces, working primarily with colour and reduced surfaces.
As the winner of the Hans Purrmann Advancement Award 2025, she is showing a cycle of etchings entitled Once upon somewhere in between (first exhibited at the HFBK Hamburg Annual Exhibition 2024) and a panoramic painting of five dibond panels entitled Some say we have no time to stand and stare (Panel 6) (2024).
The cycle, consisting of three medium-sized prints, refers in its title to the fairy-tale, dreamlike allusion ‘once upon’ and ‘somewhere’ to an imaginary space; ‘in between’ reinforces the statement of an intermediate world, a memory or a state of transition. The etchings are printed in two colours, ochre and light grey, creating an atmospheric distance. Ostapenko draws into the prints with a pencil, transforming the editioned print into an individual graphic.
This contrasts with the panoramic painting Some say we have no time to stand and stare (Panel 6). The title is perhaps a reflection on the speed of modern life and, at the same time, an invitation to slowness and careful observation. Here, on a 100 × 590 cm surface, the artist paints hard-edged, bold, camouflage-like patches of colour, rhythmically repeating a landscape or related motif from narrow on the left to wide and mirrored in the centre. This repetition of motifs follows the principle of a photographic shot with progressively longer times of exposure.

Prof. Frank-Joachim Grossmann, Jury member of the International Print Biennial Yerevan 2023

Panel 1, 2022, Acrylic on dibond, 90 x 66 cm

Panel 2, 2022, Acrylic on dibond, 90 x 66 cm

Panel 3, 2023, Acrylic on Dibond, 161 x 154 cm

Panel 4, 2023, Oil on dibond, 64 x 60 cm

Panel 5, 2023, Oil on dibond, 64 x 60 cm

Panel 6, 2024, Vinyl paint on dibond, 100 x 590 cm (5 parts,100 x 118 cm each)

HFBK Graduate Show, Hamburg (Germany), 2024, Photo: Julien Kartheuser

HFBK Annual Exhibition, Hamburg (Germany), 2023, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

durch_drehen, xpon-art gallery, Hamburg (Germany), 2024, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

HFBK Annual Exhibition, Hamburg (Germany), 2023, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Fundamente, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (Germany), Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Cubes

An ongoing series of paintings inspired by the shapes and colors found in the Hamburg port.

Blue cubes, 2024, Acrylic and markers on paper, 31 x 51 cm

Green cubes, 2024, Acrylic and markers on paper, 36 x 46 cm

Blues cubes, 2025, Acrylic, vinyl paint and markers on paper, 35,5 x 44,6 cm

Long purple cubes, 2025, Acrylic, vinyl paint and markers on paper, 22,5 x 76,4 cm

Déjà vu avant-première, DalgArt, Dâlga (Romania), 2024, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Unaufgefallenes, SameSame Galerie, Hamburg (Germany), 2025, Photo: Julien Kartheuser

Current

Upcoming

Past

Artist in Residence at Grafikwerkstatt Dresden

1.3. – 29.3.26

Grafikwerkstatt Dresden, Dresden (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

1.3. – 29.3.26

Location:

Grafikwerkstatt Dresden
Junghansstraße 3
01277 Dresden
Germany

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Elizaveta Ostapenko will be participating in an art residency at Grafikwerkstatt Dresden in March, developing a new printmaking project. The residency is supported by a scholarship from the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg.

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Von Anfang an

7.12. – 10.1.26

Opening: 7.12.25

Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

7.12. – 10.1.26

Opening:

7.12.25

Location:

Galerie Kaufmann
Erikastraße 47
20251 Hamburg
Germany

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The Kaufmann Mastaglio Collection is now open for viewing. Around 30 pieces of art will be on display. As this exhibition is not for sale, the gallery is charging an admission fee of €5 for the opening reception.

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Book Launch: Hans Purrmann Prize

1.12. – 1.12.25

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Exhibition dates:

1.12. – 1.12.25

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A new book has been published on the occasion of the Hans Purrmann Prize. The publication accompanies the awarded painting and prints, and also presents a selection of recent projects. A PDF version can be downloaded via the link above. For a physical copy, please feel free to reach out.

Foto: Klaus Venus

Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Jubilee Fifth International Print Biennale Yerevan

5.9. – 5.12.25

Opening: 5.9.25 at 7 pm

HayArt Centre, Yerevan (Armenia)

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Exhibition dates:

5.9. – 5.12.25

Opening:

5.9.25 at 7 pm

Location:

HayArt Centre
7a Mashtots street
0015 Yerevan
Armenia

Opening hours:

Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Sunday: closed

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Established as the first and only internationally recognised biennale dedicated to printmaking in Armenia and the surrounding region, this event continues to celebrate and showcase the art of printmaking on a global stage.

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Once upon somewhere in between

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Once upon somewhere in between

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Once upon somewhere in between

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Once upon somewhere in between

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Once upon somewhere in between

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Gruppe Motto Art Fair

22.8. – 24.8.25

Opening: 22.8.25 at 2 pm

Galerie Gruppe Motto, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

22.8. – 24.8.25

Opening:

22.8.25 at 2 pm

Location:

Galerie Gruppe Motto
Speckstraße 85
20355 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Fri + Sat: 14:00 – 20:00
Sun: 12:00 – 18:00

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Art Fair during the Gängeviertel Geburtstag. A new edition of riso prints is available.

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Stadt, Land, Fluss

30.4. – 28.7.25

Wälderhaus, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

30.4. – 28.7.25

Location:

Wälderhaus
Am Inselpark 19
21109 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Open daily
Midissage: 24 June, 18:00

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The show presents a selection of Elizaveta Ostapenko's recent paintings and prints. The display sets itself apart from a traditional white cube setting and invites visitors to engage with the works within the public space of the Wälderhaus building.

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Once upon somewhere in between

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Pasteurisation

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Pasteurisation

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ARTYARD Kunstfestival

16.5. – 18.5.25

Opening: 16.5.25 at 5 pm

Landgang Brauerei, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

16.5. – 18.5.25

Opening:

16.5.25 at 5 pm

Location:

Landgang Brauerei
Beerenweg 12
22761 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Friday – from 17:00, Saturday – from 12:00

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Art festival at Landgang Brauerei with an art section, music, tattoos and workshops.

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Unaufgefallenes

25.4. – 27.4.25

Opening: 24.4.25 at 6 pm

SameSame Galerie, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

25.4. – 27.4.25

Opening:

24.4.25 at 6 pm

Location:

SameSame Galerie
Pflugacker 3
22523 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 14:00 – 19:00

Other participants:

Gerald Chors

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In the fifth edition of the SameSame series, Gerald Chors and Elizaveta Ostapenko explore the themes of transience, space and transformation. Both artists work with fragments and deal with the transformation of structures - Chors captures vanished urban scenes in his Polaroids, while Ostapenko breaks up and reassembles everyday orders. Their works move between the poles of documentation and re-creation, past and present.

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Towers

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Everyday

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Everyday

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Everyday

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Towers

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Cubes

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Cubes

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Hans Purrmann Prizes 2025

23.2. – 30.3.25

Opening: 22.2.25 at 4 pm

Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

23.2. – 30.3.25

Opening:

22.2.25 at 4 pm

Location:

Kulturhof Flachsgasse
Flachsgasse 3
67346 Speyer
Germany

Opening hours:

Thursday – Sunday, 11:00 – 18:00

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The Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer for Fine Arts was established by the City of Speyer exactly 60 years ago on the occasion of Hans Purrmann's 85th birthday and is now being awarded for the 22nd time. According to Hans Purrmann's wish, the prize, which is endowed with 6,000 euros and its catalogue publication, is to be awarded to young artists worthy of support who have a European view and reference, but also an artistic connection between European metropolises and rural areas. The award goes to Elizaveta Ostapenko.

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Once upon somewhere in between

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durch_drehen

1.8. – 1.9.24

Opening: 1.8.24 at 7 pm

xpon-art gallery, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

1.8. – 1.9.24

Opening:

1.8.24 at 7 pm

Location:

xpon-art gallery
Repsoldstraße 45
20097 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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Since everything is going crazy anyway, it makes sense to turn it into a theme. Twenty artists showcase their explorations in dance, choreography, cyanotype, drawing, radio play, textiles, puppets, objects, photography, video, collage, painting, installation, and sculpture. Fortunately, we have space, and the 15 cm of heavy rain in the cellar was cleared long ago. Nobody noticed, anyway. We'll pull ourselves together.

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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My favourite journey between melting and freezing

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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My favourite journey between melting and freezing

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Déjà vu avant-première

22.9. – 23.9.24

Opening: 21.9.24 at 7 pm

DalgArt, Dâlga (Romania)

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Exhibition dates:

22.9. – 23.9.24

Opening:

21.9.24 at 7 pm

Location:

DalgArt
Dâlga
Romania

Opening hours:

Open by appointment

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Déjà vu avant-première is a notion between seeing something which doesn’t exist yet and something very familiar, that one already knows. This is a space between reality and fiction, between past and future, between memory and prediction. The artist revisits and reuses an archive of her daily observations through a process of de/reconstructing found past impressions into new narratives and environments. The exhibition showcases a selection of small-scale paintings, revealing fragments of existing and non-existing memories.

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Towers

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Cubes

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Cubes

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Towers

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Cubes

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Cubes

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Déjà vu avant-première

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Towers

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Towers

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Déjà vu avant-première

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HFBK Hamburg Graduate Show 2024

12.7. – 14.7.24

Opening: 11.7.24 at 7 pm

HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

12.7. – 14.7.24

Opening:

11.7.24 at 7 pm

Location:

HFBK Hamburg
Lerchenfeld 2
22081 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Friday – Sunday, 14:00 – 20:00

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More than 160 graduates from the 2023/24 academic year are showing their final artistic works in a comprehensive exhibition at the HFBK. Elizaveta Ostapenko's work is on view at Room K19.

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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HFBK Hamburg Annual Exhibition 2023

10.2. – 12.2.23

Opening: 9.2.23 at 7 pm

HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

10.2. – 12.2.23

Opening:

9.2.23 at 7 pm

Location:

HFBK Hamburg
Lerchenfeld 2
22081 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Friday – Sunday, 14:00 – 20:00

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From February 10-12, students from all departments will present their artistic works at Lerchenfeld 2, Wartenau 15 and AtelierHaus, Lerchenfeld 2a. Elizaveta Ostapenko's work is on view at Room Le K21.

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Fundamente

12.10. – 6.1.24

Opening: 12.10.23 at 6 pm

Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

12.10. – 6.1.24

Opening:

12.10.23 at 6 pm

Location:

Galerie Kaufmann
Erikastraße 47
20251 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Thursday – Friday 15:00 – 18:00
Saturday 11:00 – 14:00

Other participants:

Daniel Hörner
Nis Knudsen

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Elizaveta Ostapenko. Window exhibition

25.8. – 30.9.23

17vor, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

25.8. – 30.9.23

Location:

17vor
Blankeneser Hauptstraße 153
22587 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

24/7

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Solo-exhibition in the shop window of a design studio 17vor. Curated by Galerie Kaufmann.

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My favourite journey between melting and freezing

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My favourite journey between melting and freezing

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My favourite journey between melting and freezing

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Unlimited Visuality

8.9. – 25.9.22

Opening: 8.9.22 at 6 pm

Galeria Aparte, Iași (Romania)

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Exhibition dates:

8.9. – 25.9.22

Opening:

8.9.22 at 6 pm

Location:

Galeria Aparte
Strada Sărărie 189
700452 Iași
Romania

Other participants:

ALB
Lucian Bran
Sarah Muscalu
Ana-Maria Micu
Ciprian Tocar

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The exhibition, Unlimited Visuality is part of the Investigative Aesthetics in the Post-Truth Era project initiated by ElectroPutere Gallery and the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts (ICMA) with the aim of exploring the multiple functions and social and political effects of contemporary image culture through artistic and theoretical research.
The exhibition presents six multimedia artistic productions, made by young artists who practice, as a theoretical background, the language of investigative aesthetics.

Hamburg-based Russian artist Elizaveta Ostapenko’s research focuses on the communicative character of the image. In her case, the production of the image is the result of a deconstructive process, which involves cancelling the traditional semiotic functions used in representation. Her artistic practice develops a narrative about the image using personal experiences, activities and everyday experiences, inspired by the immediate reality induced by the visual manipulations of mass culture.

Curator: Adrian Bojenoiu
Graphic design: Mihai Sovăială
Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration.
Partners: Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts (ICMA)

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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Some say we have no time to stand and stare

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My favourite journey between melting and freezing

9.7. – 15.7.22

Opening: 8.7.22 at 6 pm

KDK Offspace Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Germany)

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Exhibition dates:

9.7. – 15.7.22

Opening:

8.7.22 at 6 pm

Location:

KDK Offspace Deichtorhallen
Deichtorstraße 1-2
20095 Hamburg
Germany

Opening hours:

Tue – Fr, 14:00 – 18:00
Sat – Sun, 11:00 – 18:00

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How can the process of transformation and movement be frozen and extended over time? The exhibited works deal with the deconstruction and reconstruction of everyday urban surroundings. The moment of transformation from one form to the next, the play with scale and perspective leads to a destabilisation of habitual ways of looking at the surroundings.

The installation consists of five objects connected by a railway line and a video projection. The work was awarded the DAAD Prize 2022.

Elizaveta Ostapenko was born in 1999 and lives and works in Hamburg. She is inspired by the urban environment and experiments with painting, printmaking and photography, as well as sculptural techniques.

The exhibition is being realised with the kind support of the HFBK Hamburg.